About

My interdisciplinary interests largely determine my approach to teaching. Throughout my university career, I served as a Teaching Assistant for both undergraduate and graduate courses in African religions, general regionally specific introductory courses in religious studies, as well as courses in anthropology and cultural studies. I have been a Visiting Lecturer in the department for the study of religion at the Ilia State University in my home country, Georgia. I also have had the pleasure to teach high school students both in an institutional and private context. To this day, I continue to tutor pre-college students in academic writing, history, and religion. Being an eager observer of my own teachers, I gradually amassed a collection of teaching techniques that enable students to build on their strengths in an equitable learning environment.

I dabbled into Georgian to English translation when I was still a freshmen in college. Since then, I collected a long list of translations under my belt, ranging between government reports, scholarly articles, project proposals and reports, and popular reading material. As an admirer of my native language, I take pleasure in finding the right balance between conveying the original idea and capturing the essence of the words. After all, translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes (Günter Grass).